Word: bill
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President Bok personally journeyed to Washington to argue that the bill would handicap the University's attempts to bring new blood into the faculty when the majority of tenured professors turn 70 in 15 years...
...bill was a unique event," Shattuck says. "I don't think it indicates a change of any kind...
Some Hill watchers say that the anti-higher education provisions of the bill were the work of one man: Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D.-Ill.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that drafted the legislation...
...eyes, higher education lobbyists were pleading for the same things everyone else was: their own special interest," says a House aide close to the committee. "So why should he give them any preference in a bill that hurt everyone equally...
Following on the footsteps of the tax bill setback came another defeat. Higher education representatives strove to include a 15-year exemption for colleges and universities in a 1986 bill that prohibited mandatory retirement, but only got a seven-year exemption...